Word: nejd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There remained the vast desert heft of the rest of Arabia. To prevent even this from attaining true unity, it was divided into various territories: the Kingdom of the Hejaz, the principalities of Asir and Yemen, the British-controlled Hadramaut, Oman on the tip of the Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better...
Morally straight as a sceptre, physically supple and strong as a beast of prey is the mightiest man in the Middle East, King Ibn Saud. Last week he changed the name of his realm which has been "The Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd and Its Dependencies." Renaming this huge desert hodgepodge partly after himself, tall, frowning Ibn Saud christened...
Honored. Charles Richard Crane, 72, of Manhattan, onetime (1920-1921) U. S. Minister to China; named honorary adviser to the Chinese Nationalist Government by H. H. Kung, Chinese Minister of Industry, Commerce & Labor. Last week Mr. Crane sailed to visit Ibn Saud, King of Hejaz and Nejd...
Arabian King Ibn Saud of Hejaz and Nejd last week avoided another operation on his ailing eyeballs (previous operation in 1926), received with joy a prescription for "more powerful glasses" from Dr. Abdul Hamid Bey Fahmy, Cairo specialist...